I agree that issues in what you’re used to feel more acute. But I’ve spent my time on linux not less than on windows and osx (and dos, fwiw). Each claimed at least seven years of my life (but ofc windows was in the background all the time). The issues I mentioned in the linked post are very non-blanket and very specific. I know some solutions, but they have their own set of nuances (e.g. I know xfce would work fine for me, but it cannot deal with 1.5x scaling well, so I’d have to buy an extra display, which I have my requirements for and that’s far from being cheap, so…).
Yes it’s only a subset of all software that I have issues with, and only at this point in time, and only in my workflows. But please forgive me the blanketness if I say so from definitely non-zero experience and living through that periodically, on different distros/environments, with mostly the same result. And it’s not only me, the guys who see me working on it, or doing simple things on it themselves ask me why it is like that. I just say “because it’s linux”, cause what else can you say. Most of these issues are “just shtupid” and can’t compare to the issues I’ve had with win/osx.
I love linux - I work in msys2-enabled console all the time. I have studied APUE, that thick brick of knowkedge. I use it for my “gigs”, and I run a few linuxes in virtualbox and as VPS, all time. But this “DE” part, man.
Yes it’s only a subset of all software that I have issues with, and only at this point in time, and only in my workflows. But please forgive me the blanketness if I say so from definitely non-zero experience and living through that periodically, on different distros/environments, with mostly the same result. And it’s not only me, the guys who see me working on it, or doing simple things on it themselves ask me why it is like that. I just say “because it’s linux”, cause what else can you say. Most of these issues are “just shtupid” and can’t compare to the issues I’ve had with win/osx.
I love linux - I work in msys2-enabled console all the time. I have studied APUE, that thick brick of knowkedge. I use it for my “gigs”, and I run a few linuxes in virtualbox and as VPS, all time. But this “DE” part, man.